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p.g.j serving the sllpoery bock community tor 45 yarn vol 53 no 14 friday december 7 1979 tuition kept down by walt petrosky tuition will not be hiked next semester stated penn sylvania commissioner for higher education dr clay sommers on thursday nov 29 sommers announc ed that tuition will remain at 950 per year and previous ly passed legislation barring a tuition increase during the 1979-80 academic year will not be challenged the commonwealth asso ciation of students cas sponsored the tuition cap legislation which currently legally prohibits any tuition increases at any of the thir teen state colleges and indi ana university of pennsyl vania pension in latest by hussain imam dr albert a watrel former president of slippery rock state college has fail ed in an attempt to obtain a state pension which would have netted him approxi mately 106,000 over the next thirteen years the decision to reject watrel's bid to buy pension time from his teaching ser vice at dickinson state col lege in north dakota was re cently made by the state employee's retirement board watrel who was fired in 1976 after a state audit cited him for mismanagement was hired may 21 by darrell holmes president of east stroudsburg state college essc as a faculty usage consultant the controversy sur rounding watrel's pension has been going on for al most three years at the time ot wdtrel's firing in 1976 than education secre loe archut legislative di rector for cas responded to sommers announcement saying the decision not to hike tuition comes as a mon umental victory for cas and the students of the state colleges and indiana uni versity of pennsylvania he added we've work ed over the past year with the legislature to keep tui tion costs down and have shown our solidarity through the success of the oct 24 boycott of classes this decision certainly reaf firms the power of the stu dents also commenting on sommers announcement was cas executive director robin winston who stated the successful boycotts combined with a strong cas legislative program ensured accessibility to a low-cost quality of educa tion for the 76,000 students we represent winston said that prior to the boycotts which occurred on seven state college cam puses and indiana universi ty of pa many people said1 that students were apathetic and not concerned about education he added that he felt the boycotts cleared up this misconception marcey carey public re lations director for cas said that sommers , an continued on page 7 eludes watrel state tary john pittenger charged watrel with mismanage ment but also said watrel may have criminally misbe haved which was not prov en watrel threatened a libel suit but dropped it in ex change for an agreement with pittenger and former governor milton shapp the agreement which in cluded a full year sabbatical leave extended watrel's 40,000 slippery rock salary one year beyond his dismissal the agreement also waiv ed an obligation which nor mally would have required watrel to return to srsc af ter his sabbatical was over watrel was also promised that he would be employed by another state college for as long as he needed to qualify for his pension holmes offered watrel a job at essc in 1977 but former education secretary caryl kline would not ap prove the appointment in order to receive state pension watrel needed two years of state employment at the time of his firing in 1976 watrel tried to get his pension by sending the re tirement board at 2,200 check an amount which covered the contribution he and the state would have made toward his pension during those two final years this however was reject ed photo by kaihy oocrlnger only eighteen days till christmas mrs nancy rein hard the president's wife kicked off her busy holiday schedule last week when the reinhards invited student leaders to help trim their tree student still critical by walt petrosky an eighteen year old srsc freshman mark car erra who was critically in jured in a hit-and-run acci dent on friday sept 28 re mains in a comatose state in a new york hospital as previous reports indi cated on the night of the accident the young carerra was found lying against the east-side curb of south main street in front of the riviera dormitory at 11:10 p.m carerra a native of mt sinai new york was a business major who was a recruit for the srsc wrest ling team according to carerra's father his son was transfer red from pittsburgh's alle gheny general hospital to st charles hospital in port jefferson ny on nov 4 it's going on the tenth week since the accident and mark's finally beginning to take in food orally said carerra he added that he was informed that slippery rock police had impounded a car in connection with the accident however carerra added that it has been five weeks since the police have contacted him carerra a self-employed father of six said that his son's medical bills are es timated to add up to over 100,000 however insur ance may not cover all the bills said the elder carerra who explained that his son's insurance does not cover conlmuad on paga b mopes mesmerizes crowd by diane e mcsweeney 1 don't have any special powers everything can be performed with proper training said mapes hyp notist and author to two sell-out crowds at the multi purpose room in the col lege union on monday dec 3 and tuesday dec 4 monday night mapes lec tured about hypnosis and demonstrated his powers using the audience as his subjects i don't hypnotize you i help you hypnotize your selves " mape explained that being hypnotized is let ting you use your know ledge and imagination the highlight oi his two day visit was his workshop one hundred and fifty lucky students were requested to bring pillows and blankets mapes told two volunteers from the audience to write their ii ainea on a chalk board he regressed them to the age of 12 then to 5 and they started printing theu names instead of writing them other volunteers were sent on a trip in a spaceship as they blasted oft so did their chairs rumbling around in then seats they also visited foreign lands these earthly astronauts were told they were freezing cold one minute and the next they were hot enough to start taking some of their clothes off one volunteer george mcdowell was made to be lieve he was slippery rock president herb reinhard tuesday night's workshop looked like a sleep-in fox the king family participants were told to bring sleeping bags for the four-hour work shop mapes showed more of his ability to help people imagine the last half hour waa luuliuund ull pay 5

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p.g.j serving the sllpoery bock community tor 45 yarn vol 53 no 14 friday december 7 1979 tuition kept down by walt petrosky tuition will not be hiked next semester stated penn sylvania commissioner for higher education dr clay sommers on thursday nov 29 sommers announc ed that tuition will remain at 950 per year and previous ly passed legislation barring a tuition increase during the 1979-80 academic year will not be challenged the commonwealth asso ciation of students cas sponsored the tuition cap legislation which currently legally prohibits any tuition increases at any of the thir teen state colleges and indi ana university of pennsyl vania pension in latest by hussain imam dr albert a watrel former president of slippery rock state college has fail ed in an attempt to obtain a state pension which would have netted him approxi mately 106,000 over the next thirteen years the decision to reject watrel's bid to buy pension time from his teaching ser vice at dickinson state col lege in north dakota was re cently made by the state employee's retirement board watrel who was fired in 1976 after a state audit cited him for mismanagement was hired may 21 by darrell holmes president of east stroudsburg state college essc as a faculty usage consultant the controversy sur rounding watrel's pension has been going on for al most three years at the time ot wdtrel's firing in 1976 than education secre loe archut legislative di rector for cas responded to sommers announcement saying the decision not to hike tuition comes as a mon umental victory for cas and the students of the state colleges and indiana uni versity of pennsylvania he added we've work ed over the past year with the legislature to keep tui tion costs down and have shown our solidarity through the success of the oct 24 boycott of classes this decision certainly reaf firms the power of the stu dents also commenting on sommers announcement was cas executive director robin winston who stated the successful boycotts combined with a strong cas legislative program ensured accessibility to a low-cost quality of educa tion for the 76,000 students we represent winston said that prior to the boycotts which occurred on seven state college cam puses and indiana universi ty of pa many people said1 that students were apathetic and not concerned about education he added that he felt the boycotts cleared up this misconception marcey carey public re lations director for cas said that sommers , an continued on page 7 eludes watrel state tary john pittenger charged watrel with mismanage ment but also said watrel may have criminally misbe haved which was not prov en watrel threatened a libel suit but dropped it in ex change for an agreement with pittenger and former governor milton shapp the agreement which in cluded a full year sabbatical leave extended watrel's 40,000 slippery rock salary one year beyond his dismissal the agreement also waiv ed an obligation which nor mally would have required watrel to return to srsc af ter his sabbatical was over watrel was also promised that he would be employed by another state college for as long as he needed to qualify for his pension holmes offered watrel a job at essc in 1977 but former education secretary caryl kline would not ap prove the appointment in order to receive state pension watrel needed two years of state employment at the time of his firing in 1976 watrel tried to get his pension by sending the re tirement board at 2,200 check an amount which covered the contribution he and the state would have made toward his pension during those two final years this however was reject ed photo by kaihy oocrlnger only eighteen days till christmas mrs nancy rein hard the president's wife kicked off her busy holiday schedule last week when the reinhards invited student leaders to help trim their tree student still critical by walt petrosky an eighteen year old srsc freshman mark car erra who was critically in jured in a hit-and-run acci dent on friday sept 28 re mains in a comatose state in a new york hospital as previous reports indi cated on the night of the accident the young carerra was found lying against the east-side curb of south main street in front of the riviera dormitory at 11:10 p.m carerra a native of mt sinai new york was a business major who was a recruit for the srsc wrest ling team according to carerra's father his son was transfer red from pittsburgh's alle gheny general hospital to st charles hospital in port jefferson ny on nov 4 it's going on the tenth week since the accident and mark's finally beginning to take in food orally said carerra he added that he was informed that slippery rock police had impounded a car in connection with the accident however carerra added that it has been five weeks since the police have contacted him carerra a self-employed father of six said that his son's medical bills are es timated to add up to over 100,000 however insur ance may not cover all the bills said the elder carerra who explained that his son's insurance does not cover conlmuad on paga b mopes mesmerizes crowd by diane e mcsweeney 1 don't have any special powers everything can be performed with proper training said mapes hyp notist and author to two sell-out crowds at the multi purpose room in the col lege union on monday dec 3 and tuesday dec 4 monday night mapes lec tured about hypnosis and demonstrated his powers using the audience as his subjects i don't hypnotize you i help you hypnotize your selves " mape explained that being hypnotized is let ting you use your know ledge and imagination the highlight oi his two day visit was his workshop one hundred and fifty lucky students were requested to bring pillows and blankets mapes told two volunteers from the audience to write their ii ainea on a chalk board he regressed them to the age of 12 then to 5 and they started printing theu names instead of writing them other volunteers were sent on a trip in a spaceship as they blasted oft so did their chairs rumbling around in then seats they also visited foreign lands these earthly astronauts were told they were freezing cold one minute and the next they were hot enough to start taking some of their clothes off one volunteer george mcdowell was made to be lieve he was slippery rock president herb reinhard tuesday night's workshop looked like a sleep-in fox the king family participants were told to bring sleeping bags for the four-hour work shop mapes showed more of his ability to help people imagine the last half hour waa luuliuund ull pay 5